Amazon Workers Nab $7 Million Security Screening Pay Deal Nod

Amazon.com Inc. and warehouse workers who say it stiffed them on pay for time spent going through security screenings gained preliminary court approval for a $7 million deal resolving decade-old wage-and-hour allegations.

The settlement covers more than 21,800 people who worked for the retailer at Pennsylvania fulfillment centers, the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky said. The workers estimate that members of the proposed state-law class will receive nearly $130 on average, the Tuesday opinion said.

The deal resolves the Kentucky lawsuit and a pending the Eastern District of Pennsylvania case filed in 2021, after the ...